On 17 1 2005 at 1:15 pm -0500, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: >I usually find when a group moves to a web forum, despite my best intentions >I stop participateing. I just don't remember to go to the forum, unless I'm >haveing a big problem. Even newsgroups I only remember every few days.
I have to pipe up with another pair of hands raised in the air here. I despise web forums, and don't use them simply because they are too much a pain in the ass. NNTP is not so much a problem for me, in part because I run a newsreader for other purposes anyway and I also appreciate the threading, etc. -- but the lack of local archive, as well as painful searchability, is a serious concern which is more important in a business-related context like this rather than with regular old Usenet (which is mirrored by google groups anyway). I just posed a (presumably repeat) question in the blogware group about an issue that, had it been discussed on a mailing list, I would almost certainly have kept here and thus would have been able to find the answer pro-actively. Tsk tsk. >Ross has mentioned e-mail "notifications". I've just looked through Phorum >and do not see any option to do this. Hopefully what is sent out is the >actual message, not just a mail that says "A new message has been posted >here" as some of these web board programs do. I am hoping the same thing. I hope that somebody comes up with some software that will essentially retain the functionality and utility of these e-mail lists. -ben (who still himself hasn't jumped on any RSS bandwagon, although he increasingly realises he ought to since it is the fad du jour) -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
